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...granted that everyone realizes them. All students to a certain extent recognize the unfairness of marks, especially when they are made the basis of honors and scholarships. No two instructors give marks on the same standard. A mark in one course of ninety represents the same knowledge of the subject for which another instructor would give seventy-five. Again, a mark of sixty in one course represents work that would receive eighty-five or ninety in another course. Marks, in the third place, represent, at Harvard, work done only in the examination room. A student who has crammed and tutored...
...This subject of marking is one of great interest; we would gladly receive and publish communications in regard to it from students or instructors...
Theme II will be due on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Subject: A description...
Theme IV will be due on Thursday, Dec. 3. Subject: A Description...
...published in yesterday's paper a very naive communication from an '89 man on the subject of the abandonment of the Grand Stand project, in which he asserted that there was "a startling amount of indifference to the glorious records of the nine and Mott Haven team displayed in the relinquishment of this project." We have received several letters from graduates and undergraduates in regard to this, - men whose names are extremely high in Harvard's athletic annals, and they are without exception, opposed to the plan. In the first place, it is inadvisable to saddle an additional expense...